

She bears Nenya, the Ring of Adamant, or Water. The only Ringbearer to be given a Ring of Power and actually manage to hang onto it isn’t in fact a King, but a Queen, Galadriel. The Ringbearers Three Rings For The Elven Kings, Under The Sky Galadriel The One also had more direct power over the other sixteen Rings of Power. Sauron could perceive the Ringbearers of the Three and they could perceive him, and their power became tied to the One if it was destroyed, their power would fade. Although he had never touched the Three Elven Rings, Celebrimbor had used the skills Sauron had taught him when he forged them, so the One Ring still had some power over the Three. Not to be outdone, Sauron forged the One Ring alone, in the fires of Orodruin, otherwise known as Mount Doom. Sauron had no part in making these and he never touched them. The chief of the Elven-smiths eventually realised that he had been tricked and, using the skills he had learned from Annatar, went away in secret and forged three more Rings of Power, made specifically for the Elves to use themselves. The Elven-smiths had made many lesser rings, as Gandalf would tell Frodo many centuries later, but working with Annatar they made sixteen Rings of Power, which were far more dangerous. He convinced the Elven smith Celebrimbor and his jewel-smiths the Gwaith-i-Mírdain to start creating Rings of Power. He took on a beautiful appearance and claimed to be an emissary of the great spirits the Valar, and tried to persuade the Elves to work with him. The Lord of Gifts, Annatar is a disguise adopted by the Dark Lord Sauron during the Second Age. Please note there may be some spoilers for the series here, since we don’t know what the writers may choose to keep mysterious early on! The Forgers Of The Rings Annatar

But what are the Rings of Power, and who wields them? Read on for our brief beginners’ guide to these MacGufffins at the heart of Tolkien’s mythology. We know that the timeline has been compressed so that the series will cover all the major events of the Second Age of Tolkien’s Middle Earth, and we know that the forging of the Rings of Power will be at the heart of the series. The information that’s been coming out about Amazon’s new Lord of the Rings prequel series has started to give us a much clearer idea about what sort of things we might see.
